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Blavatsky H.P. - Madame Blavatsky (4) (view source)
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| item title = Madame Blavatsky
| item author = Blavatsky H.P.
| volume = 2
| pages = 55
| publications = The Spiritualist, London, July 11, 1879, p. 24
| scrapbook =
| previous = Blavatsky H.P. - Letter to the Editor of the “Indu Prakash”
| next = Blavatsky H.P. - Réponse Définitive d’une Théosophe à M. Rossi de Justiniani
| alternatives = [http://www.katinkahesselink.net/blavatsky/articles/v2/y1879_013.htm KHL]
| translations =
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SIR,—Be so kind as to make room in your next issue for this indignant protest of mine. Speaking of me in your leading article of May 23rd, and entitled “Theosophic Thaumaturgy,” I am mentioned as the “Countess” Blavatsky. Allow me to state, once for ever, that such is not my title, nor can I concede the right to include in the long list of vices I may be possibly endowed with that of a parvenu’s vanity. My family, on both sides, is quite ancient enough and noble enough to have transmitted to me too much pride to leave room for any petty feeling of vanity. I had to protest against this title while I was in America; have protested against it at another time in La Revue Spirite of Paris; and have just published in the Bombay Gazette of May 13th a third protest, stating that, for reasons sufficiently specified, and not wholly disconnected with American citizenship, my name is simply
{{Style P-Signature|H. P. BLAVATSKY.
Bombay, June 12th.}}
{{HPB-CW-comment|[The expression “Countess Blavatsky” was taken from the Indian newspapers.—ED.]}}
| item title = Madame Blavatsky
| item author = Blavatsky H.P.
| volume = 2
| pages = 55
| publications = The Spiritualist, London, July 11, 1879, p. 24
| scrapbook =
| previous = Blavatsky H.P. - Letter to the Editor of the “Indu Prakash”
| next = Blavatsky H.P. - Réponse Définitive d’une Théosophe à M. Rossi de Justiniani
| alternatives = [http://www.katinkahesselink.net/blavatsky/articles/v2/y1879_013.htm KHL]
| translations =
}}
{{Page aside|55}}
{{Style P-Title|MADAME BLAVATSKY}}
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SIR,—Be so kind as to make room in your next issue for this indignant protest of mine. Speaking of me in your leading article of May 23rd, and entitled “Theosophic Thaumaturgy,” I am mentioned as the “Countess” Blavatsky. Allow me to state, once for ever, that such is not my title, nor can I concede the right to include in the long list of vices I may be possibly endowed with that of a parvenu’s vanity. My family, on both sides, is quite ancient enough and noble enough to have transmitted to me too much pride to leave room for any petty feeling of vanity. I had to protest against this title while I was in America; have protested against it at another time in La Revue Spirite of Paris; and have just published in the Bombay Gazette of May 13th a third protest, stating that, for reasons sufficiently specified, and not wholly disconnected with American citizenship, my name is simply
{{Style P-Signature|H. P. BLAVATSKY.
Bombay, June 12th.}}
{{HPB-CW-comment|[The expression “Countess Blavatsky” was taken from the Indian newspapers.—ED.]}}